Faculty News
SCE Faculty Win 2020 AIANY Design Awards
David Lewis and David Leven, Parsons SCE faculty, won 2020 AIANY Design Awards in the Interiors and Projects categories. The award is announced each year to honor the architects, clients, and consultants for their collaborative efforts to achieve design excellence. Poster House, a design project by LTL Architects (David Lewis, Paul …
Jennifer Bolstad and Walter Meyer Win Climathron Global Award
Congratulations to Jennifer Bolstad and Walter Meyer, Parsons Architecture faculty and co-founders of Local Office, on winning one of the Climathron Global Awards in the Cities Track category. Their project for the city of Miami, Wynwood Living Street, pioneers a greener and pedestrian-friendly public space that embodies science to address …
Matt Burgermaster presents at Design Inquiry’s Futurespective
SCE Faculty Matt Burgermaster presented recent work on practices of “remaking” at Design Inquiry’s Futurespective conference. Held at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, in Portland, Maine, this interdisciplinary event explored issues in design culture related to the question: what does it mean to rethink the past in the …
SCE Faculty Rama Chorpash to Judge 2020 Danish Design Award
Founding Director of Parsons MFA Industrial Design program Rama Chorpash has been named as part of the International Jury for the 2020 Danish Design Award — Design Denmark. Beyond the multi-staged judging deliberations throughout 2020, Chorpash will also act as an ambassador to the award. The award celebrates the many ways …
Parsons Faculty Participate in Panel with Macy’s
On September 19th, 2019, SCE Associate Professor of Sustainable Interior Design Nadia Elrokhsy and SCE Assistant Professor of Interior Design Yu Nong Khew, along with Parsons’ Dean of Hybrid Design Studies, Lidewij Edelkoort, internationally recognized design forecaster, strategist and educator, MFA in Fashion Design and Society Director and Donna Karan …
SCE Faculty Nadia Elrokhsy to be panelist on GreenHome NYC’s meet-up event
SCE AAS Interior Design Director, Nadia Elrokhsy, is an invited panelist and will participate in this evening’s GreenHome NYC meet-up event with other sustainability professionals in academia from Columbia University, CUNY, and Pratt Institute. Come listen, learn and network! 6:30pm – 8:00pm, TOTO Showroom, 20 W 22nd St, NY, NY …
SCE Faculty Becomes One of the Finalist in the Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC Competition
Jeremiah Joseph, a part-time faculty member in SCE’s AAS Interior Design program, and his colleague are finalists in the Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC competition, a competition organized by NYC Department of Housing and Urban Development (NYC HUD) and the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY). Big Ideas …
Brian McGrath receives a Graham Foundation Award
SCE faculty Brian McGrath has received a Graham Foundation Award with Sereypagna Pen, former SCE Visiting Scholar from Cambodia. Brian and Sereypagna’s research project , “Genealogy of Bassac,” presents an architectural study of an area in downtown Phnom Penh from the perspectives of artists and residents who have lived through …
Matt Burgermaster wins MacDowell Colony Fellowship
SCE Faculty Matt Burgermaster has been awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. The MacDowell Colony is one of the nation’s leading contemporary arts organizations and supports artistic excellence by bringing together diverse, multidisciplinary talent to exchange ideas and pursue creative work. During his summer residency, Matt will be making a series …